MICKY ADAMS admits his Coventry City side face a tough task in going to Middlesbrough to get an FA Cup fourth round result.

But the Sky Blues boss insists his players will give it everything they have got to try to earn themselves another potentially lucrative tie in the fifth round of the competition.

City came close to pulling off an upset in front of a record 28,120 crowd at the Ricoh Arena when they more than matched their Premiership opponents and dominated large periods of the game.

"To get anything out of a Premiership side you have all got to stand up and be counted and play with confidence, and I thought we did that," enthused Adams.

"Although we adopted a style that didn't particularly suit them, it suited us, coupled with the fact that we played some decent football as well. So we mixed it up nicely."

And as for the replay at the Riverside Tuesday week, he said: "We have shown enough that we are dangerous opposition and we will go there and have a go.

"The tie has probably swung back in Middle-sbrough's favour now but that is not to say we will not turn up. We will give them another game.

"We always try to show teams from the higher division respect. A lot of Premiership football I see these days, teams play in front of teams, and what teams don't like is being turned round, so that was our game plan to turn them round as much as we could. Whether we could do that for a 38 game period I am not sure, but as a one-off, the style we adopted was perfect for us."

He added: "Their goal was disappointing. Marcus had the chance to roll it back to Marton Fulop who kicked well all game, and it just happened to fall back to Hasselbaink. But what a finish!

"But we got a terrific equaliser, and in and around the box I don't think there is anyone better than Stern John.

"Everyone did themselves the world of good there. Gary McSheffrey is a dangerous player and I think he has shown that.

"I am not one for blowing smoke up people's backsides because we have still got to go up to Middlesbrough. They are now aware of what we have got at the football club and if we play anything like we did on Saturday, we are still in the tie."